Resource management conception

One of the most important aspects of middleware for mobile devices is saving energy. To do this, the system needs to make sure that peripherals are only powered when they are actually in use by at least one application. In order to support multiple concurrent applications, it is not possible to leave peripheral control up to individual applications — otherwise one application could shut down e.g. a GPS receiver, while another application still wants to access it.

FSO introduces the concept of resources. A resource is a high-level entity with a name and a state. The name is used to identify a resource (e.g. WiFi), the state is describing its condition (e.g. enabled). It is important to understand that a resource not necessarily correlates to a peripheral device. Although enabling a resource such as Bluetooth most likely has the consequence of powering up a device, there may as well be more to it, such as launching a low level device handling services or allocating related resources.

List of FSO resources

WiFi

Unless this resource is enabled you've no eth0 and wifi module is completely unpowered.

Display

While this resource is kept the display won't be blanked.

TEST

A test resource

Bluetooth

You need to have this resource requested to have bluetooth module powered.

GSM

The same for GSM modem

CPU

Default rules.yaml checks for this resource to disable automatic suspend when it's requested.

GPS

Same idea as WiFi/Bluetooth

Resource management

It would be nice to have a command to list the current state of all resources. Unfortunately, such an utility is yet to be written.

Manual way

With the help of SHR Settings or an appropriate mdbus call (example: mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy Bluetooth enabled) you set resource policy to "enabled". Do not forget that way you'll lose power since it will leave the corresponding device powered all the time.

Automatic way

Use the fsoraw utility. With it you can automatically request the necessary resource before starting a command and release it when it's finished. Especially recommended for WiFi since due to the bugs in the firmware and the driver full power-cycle of the module is often advantageous.

Example command (works for open, WEP and WPA/WPA2 networks, automatically determining the network it can connect to, just add all the networks you use to the config):

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Resource management conception

One of the most important aspects of middleware for mobile devices is saving energy. To do this, the system needs to make sure that peripherals are only powered when they are actually in use by at least one application. In order to support multiple concurrent applications, it is not possible to leave peripheral control up to individual applications — otherwise one application could shut down e.g. a GPS receiver, while another application still wants to access it.

FSO introduces the concept of resources. A resource is a high-level entity with a name and a state. The name is used to identify a resource (e.g. WiFi), the state is describing its condition (e.g. enabled). It is important to understand that a resource not necessarily correlates to a peripheral device. Although enabling a resource such as Bluetooth most likely has the consequence of powering up a device, there may as well be more to it, such as launching a low level device handling services or allocating related resources.

List of FSO resources

WiFi

Unless this resource is enabled you've no eth0 and wifi module is completely unpowered.

Display

While this resource is kept the display won't be blanked.

TEST

A test resource

Bluetooth

You need to have this resource requested to have bluetooth module powered.

GSM

The same for GSM modem

CPU

Default rules.yaml checks for this resource to disable automatic suspend when it's requested.

GPS

Same idea as WiFi/Bluetooth

Resource management

It would be nice to have a command to list the current state of all resources. Unfortunately, such an utility is yet to be written.

Manual way

With the help of SHR Settings or an appropriate mdbus call (example: mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.ousaged /org/freesmartphone/Usage org.freesmartphone.Usage.SetResourcePolicy Bluetooth enabled) you set resource policy to "enabled". Do not forget that way you'll lose power since it will leave the corresponding device powered all the time.

Automatic way

Use the fsoraw utility. With it you can automatically request the necessary resource before starting a command and release it when it's finished. Especially recommended for WiFi since due to the bugs in the firmware and the driver full power-cycle of the module is often advantageous.

Example command (works for open, WEP and WPA/WPA2 networks, automatically determining the network it can connect to, just add all the networks you use to the config):